Avatarbertonomous1 day ago‘I was so scared’: the Ukrainian children taken to Russia for financial gainverified_publisherThe Guardian - Peter Beaumont in OdesaUkraine says 16,000 children have been deported from Russian-held territory during the war – many by friends and relatives seeking to make money from fostering The stories told to Svitlana Popova’s 15-year-old daughter, Alina, while she lived under Russian occupation in Ukraine’s southern Kherson …
Avatarbertonomous2 days ago‘I’m insanely thankful to the president’: how a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regimeverified_publisherThe Guardian - Andrew Roth and Shaun Walker in WarsawRaman Pratasevich was dragged off a plane and imprisoned two years ago. Now he praises the regime he used to denounce Two years ago, Raman Pratasevich, a young Belarusian dissident blogger, was white-knuckled, begging a Ryanair flight crew not to make an emergency landing at Minsk airport. He said: …
Avatarbertonomous2 days ago‘The intensity is increasing’: Ukraine says first steps in counteroffensive have begunverified_publisherThe Guardian - Julian Borger in KyivPresidential adviser says supply lines and depots already being destroyed as preliminary operations get under way • Russia-Ukraine war – latest updates Preliminary operations have already begun to pave the way for a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces, a Ukrainian presidential adviser …
Avatarbertonomous4 days agoUS imposes sanctions on leader of Wagner group in Maliverified_publisherThe Guardian - Staff and agencies in WashingtonPrivate army led by Ivan Aleksandrovich Maslov accused of acquiring weaponry for use in Ukraine The United States has imposed sanctions on the head of the Wagner group in Mali, accusing the Russian private army of using the country as a conduit for arms and military equipment for Moscow’s war in …
Avatarbertonomous5 days agoUK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sitesverified_publisherThe Guardian - Bethan McKernan Jerusalem correspondentResearchers analysed cartographic data and aerial photos to identify three possible locations in former fishing village Tantura An investigation into a massacre in a destroyed Palestinian village carried out by Israeli forces in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has identified three …
Avatarbertonomous5 days ago‘We are Russians just like you’: anti-Putin militias enter the spotlightverified_publisherThe Guardian - Andrew RothThe paramilitaries who raided Belgorod include guerrillas with far-right connections, anti-Kremlin veterans and former members of Russia’s security services As Russian militias opposing the Kremlin readied a daring cross-border raid into the Belgorod region this week, a man with slicked-down hair, …
